bar

A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.

The window was protected by steel bars.

A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is ¹⁄₄ inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.

Ancient Sparta used iron bars instead of handy coins in more valuable alloy, to physically discourage the use of money.

We are expecting a carload of bar tomorrow.

A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.

bar of chocolate

bar of soap

A broad shaft, band, or stripe.

a bar of light

a bar of colour

A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.

To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).

Our way was barred by a huge rockfall.

'One kiss, my bonny sweetheart, I'm after a prize to-night, / But I shall be back with the yellow gold before the morning light; / Yet, if they press me sharply, and harry me through the day, / Then look for me by moonlight, / Watch for me by moonlight, / I'll come to thee by moonlight, though Hell should bar the way.'

To prohibit.

I couldn't get into the nightclub because I had been barred.

To lock or bolt with a bar.

to bar the door

To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.

I lived in a hut in the yard. To be out of the chaos I would sometimes get into the accountant’s office. It was built of horizontal planks, and so badly put together that, as he bent over his high desk, he was barred from neck to heels with narrow strips of sunlight.

Except, other than, besides.

He invited everyone to his wedding bar his ex-wife.

"I might be a fool," the younger man admitted quietly, "even an idiot, but there's not a person living, bar you, who possess the courage to call me a weakling, Sir."

Denotes the minimum odds offered on other horses not mentioned by name.

Leg At Each Corner is at 3/1, Lost My Shirt 5/1, and it's 10/1 bar.